Seconddegree manslaughter in the death of george floyd. State prosecutors are asking for a 30year Prison Sentence while chauvins attorneys are requesting time served. Vice president Kamala Harris taking a visit to the border to stem the migration crisis three months ago. Former President Trump is planning to go to the texas border with members of Congress Next week. We begin with the breaking news. Announcing a new lawsuit over the states restricted voting law weeks after promising action to protect Voting Rights nationwide. The complaint alleges that the state enacted those restrictions with the purpose of denying or bridging the right to vote on account of race or color. This lawsuit is the first of many steps we are taking to ensure that all eligible voters can cast a vote, that all lawful votes are counted and that every vote are has access to accurate information. We believe the civil rights of americans have been violated. We will not hesitate to act. Joining me now nbc justice correspondent Pete Williams and former u. S. Attorney joyce vance. First to pete outside the Justice Department. Tell me what are you hearing from the Attorney General about how this is going to work . What are the chances in this proceeding . So the key word in what the Attorney General said was purpose. Sometimes when the government sues over election law changes, it says no matter what you had in mind, legislature, this will have the effect of making it harder for minority voters to vote. In this case theyre being much more aggressive. Theyre saying no. Georgia designed this law to make it harder for minority voters to elect the candidate of their choice and the reduction in the amount of line voters can ask for ballots that cant be provided for them. Drop boxes. The number of drop boxes can be greatly reduced and they can only be indoor Government Polling Places and you cant give any food or water to people in line. The Justice Department said Plaque Voters tend to be in Polling Places where there are always long lines on voting day. This is the first of what will likely be many of these lawsuits against State Election provisions numbering what . Something like 16 by republican legislatures after last weeks election. The Justice Department also said its notifying the nations prosecutors and the fbi to be on the lookout and aggressively investigate any threats against election officials. The Attorney General said hes recently read news accounts. He didnt realize this was going on and hes today instructed that a memo go out telling him to be on the lookout and aggressively go after these, andrea. And joyce vance joining us, as well. Talk also about what the time line was here and they talked about how quickly it was passed with 90page bill just thrown on the bill, passed the same day and signed the same day by the governor. Did that have anything to do with this . The speed with which this was put together by the state . The speed is indicative of something that pete focuses on. Under section 2 of the Voting Rights act, the doj can challenge voting practices that either intentionally discriminate against blacks, minority or against provisions that have the discriminatory impact and the doj was very careful here to focus on the intent of the state of georgia, linking this notion of increased turnout and increased flat turnout due in large part to Absentee Voting Provisions and the easy availability of that mechanism and saying that georgia passed this law in essence out of racial animus with the intent for voters and one of the remaining big cases that the Supreme Court will decide is a case called bernavic which involves section 2 of the Voting Rights act and that case will be used to narrow the focus to make it more difficult for doj to bring these claims. By focusing this lawsuit very clearly on georgias intent to discriminate against voters, doj is hoping to head off any legal problems down the road once that decision is announced. And pete, it is clear from what Merrick Garland said that theyre going to look at these other 16 states plus other states . Is this a warning to all of these dozens of states around the country who are following in the footsteps . Without question, and the Justice Department will also be issuing guidance on how to conduct mailin voting and how to do mail audits. Look at the last election. There was a huge turnout in georgia especially among black voters and the legislature seems to be trying to do anything it can to cut that back. The governor of georgia has just issued a statement and he said the lawsuit was borne out of lies and misinformation. He tried to get congress to pass voting laws and now the Biden Administration is weaponizing the Justice Department to carry out its farleft agenda. We should probably assume that texas who is on the verge of doing similar legislation will be next, and it is always the Justice Departments concern. Pete williams, joy vance, a much more aggressive posture from the Justice Department on Voting Rights. Now lets turn to South Florida for the latest on the massive Search And Rescue effort after 24 hours after the deadly collapse. We are hearing from local officials as this operation is ongoing. Whats the latest . Andrea, i dont think theres any way around this that this morning was a blow to Family Members holding out help that the number of unaccounted for would be going down and not up, but thats not what we found out today. 25 people who are unaccounted for, but 159 now who are not. That figure was just over a hundred yesterday and weve seen a more than a 50 bump in the number of people theyre looking for that could have potentially been inside of this condo building. The conditions right now, andrea, are not making things easy for fire and rescue crews. It has been raining on and off. Not just raining, downpours and heavy winds and then it gets really hot and it comes right back. The reason its so difficult and there is a massive pile of rubble and debris. They told them to take shelter. You are getting another round of nasty weather today as we show you a live look right now of what is going on in the rubble and theyre going sub terrainiously and the rubble looking for cracks or voids where they may be able to find someone and the odds right now appear to be staggering. The fire chief in miamidade was asked this question, how dangerous are these conditions in which theyre operating right now. Heres what he had to say. This is the risk we have to take. Risk versus benefit. Every time there is hope with people that are trapped, we do risk our lives. Andrea, we also have it confirmed that there were three additional fatalities today. Now we are at four. Family members are being notified and next of kin. So we may find out the identity of the second, third and fourth victim, but again, 59 people unaccounted for. There is a team, standards and Technology Looking at what went wrong and deciding whether or not they have to do a deeper dive and potentially changing Building Code and obviously, it is very early in that process and well be speaking to someone from the nist and well have more on that on nbc nightly news. Let me send it back to you, andrea. You alluded to it with the fire chief and the safety of those workers under ground in the garage area with the water from the water main and the flooding from the main and just the stability of the structure itself . Reporter the actual characterization from the mayor here is that it is extremely dangerous what theyre doing and not just because of the falling debris and the Structural Integrity that is Still Standing and that can collapse at any time. Theyve been buttressing the side of it to create more stability and we watched as that excavator over my shoulder was taking chunks of the building out and perhaps the weight and its not entirely clear why they were doing that and at any point that building can go and all of these workers are valiantly walking through and trying to plunder through the debris and massive piles of what they find. And massive into the courage as there are so many families depending on some resolution. Andrea . The heroism and the resilience of the family is extraordinary. We want to focus on that Rescue Operation any bring in former Fire Chief Downey and now chairs the urban Search And Rescue for the International Fire chiefs association. Thanks very being with us. The video is just heartbreaking and stunning. How are these teams going to work under these conditions . Well, as was reported and what youve seen in other interviews, thats what these Fire Rescue Personnel are trained to do, they have extensive training, extensive experience and this is what they do and many of these have trained their whole career to be able to operate in this environment and they measure the risk versus the reward. Right now theyre in recovery, rescue mode, im sorry, rescue mode and theyre going to be taking a little more risk in order to try to locate survivors. This is a very meticulous, a very deliberate process that theyre going through right now. Can you elaborate on something that we heard from the fire chief this morning about the sounds that the crews may be hearing down there and what theyre listening for . You know, in my experience in collapse structures, theres a lot of times were always reacting to sounds. Thats only one bit of evidence well use when locating a survivor. The sounds could be created by a person. The sounds can also be created simply by the settling of the building. The steel moving, the concrete moving, unless theres something audible such as a voice or, you know, has a rhythm and a tapping which im not aware of any of that occurring. Sometimes its just one other thing that we look for, but not something that proves anything definitive. And i know that the investigation into what happened here is just beginning, but is there something unique about florida, geologically, the barrier reef or the barrier island, i should say, the sand. Something about the way buildings settle that should be cause for alarm even beyond this building . I certainly wouldnt be speculating, but i can tell you in almost 40 years in the fire service ive never seen a collapse like this, and so all of us that are involved in this type of work are going to be interested to hear what caused this collapse and hopefully learn from it and make provisions so it doesnt happen again, but i couldnt point to any one thing that would lead to this collapse right now. Chief downey, thank you so much. Thanks for all your service and we all just pray for the Rescue Workers and the victims and their families. Thank you very much. Yielding to pressure, Kamala Harris is at the southern border today following criticism for not going sooner. Get them out. Afghan interpreters who risked their lives for years helping our troops. We will speak with seth burton meeting with bush. Stay with us. You are watching Andrea Mitchell reports on msnbc. Mitchell reports on msnbc rethinking how we communicate to be more inclusive than ever. 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A taliban commander told nbc news that he and the fighters are surprised at how fast their forces are moving, this as the u. S. Intelligence Committee Says the Afghan Government could collapse as soon as six months after american soldiers leave according to a new Wall Street Journal report this week. It plans to relocate thousands of afghan interpreters, drivers and their families who worked with americans in afghanistan over the last two decades and theyre in grave danger because of the talibans approach. President biden was asked about this on thursday. Do you know anything about these reports with the afghan nationals who helped serve in the war . Weve already begun the process. Those who helped us will not be left behind. Joining me now is massachusetts congressman who served in iraq and has been leading the way on this whole issue of the afghanistan people who worked for us. Congressman, we are starting to hear how fast the taliban is advancing. Also, the Afghan Government can collapse six months after the u. S. Leaves. Whats your reaction to that . Its startling in some ways and this is exactly the worstcase scenario that weve been telling the administration we need to prepare for. The Biden Administration delayed our withdrawal and the trump team did no planning whatsoever for the withdrawal itself and the evacuation of our allies. These amazing afghans who risked their lives not just for their country, but for ours as well and nonetheless, its on the shoulders of the Biden Administration to make the evacuation happen. We dont have the time to go through the regular visa process and it takes 800 days to process your special immigrant visa and thats a program under which our afghan allies were able to come to the United States and we only have 80 days until the withdrawal and not 800 and we have to have an evacuation. As i said to Secretary Austin when he came to the hearing in the house, i said why have you not started this evacuation already . And did you get a real answer . I didnt get a real answer, but i will tell you this, that Secretary Austin as a veteran and the chairman of the joint chiefs as an active duty army officer, it was very clear from the testimony that they understand the urgency and the moral imperative to borrow chairman milleys words of getting them out now. We made a promise to these heros that we will have their backs and we have to live up to that promise, not just for them, but for every American Service man or woman and we dont want 10, 20, 30 years from now for people looking back at america and how we deal with the afghans and saying i dont want to work with you, america, because you abandoned your allies and look at what they did to the afghans. Is that also for the families . Because youre talking about at least 18,000 for the drivers and translators and others who helped us and with your families, you are talking about 50,000 and up. You well know theyve been waiting up to ten years while the visa program has not been working for them. I got a call from the white house this past weekend and the round numbers that they were accounting for was an average of 3. 5 Family Members for every one of the 18,000 who were already in the cue, and i dont know if thats the exact right now and thats what we should be anticipating and i assume that the president s commitment is to that full number of personnel. Obviously, if you have someone like me who has got two young kids at home, a wife. Im not going to leave my wife and kids to come to america. Weve got to get them out as well or they, too, will be threatened by the taliban. Make no mistake. The taliban is pretty clear here about what they will do. They will hunt these afghan american heroes dow